Forums, new reward tier pricing, and T-shirts!!

Hello there again, gang!!! Paul here to give you guys a quick update. First off I want to say WOW!!! You guys REALLY responded well to Al's video update. It really moved the needle in terms of the funding amount so guess what? Al is going to continue to make those updates! We heard you calling out to hear from Al and we're putting him front & center!! Josh has also agreed to do a video update and you may even see my mug up there soon enough too.

In the meantime, I wanted to let you know that thanks to one of our fans (HUGE shout out to Britton Mathews for working over Easter weekend to hook us up!), we were able to get the forums up and running over the weekend. Here's the link: forums.replaygamesinc.com. There you can post stuff that Al, Josh, Sabine, Leslie, and I can respond directly to. The Kickstarter comments section doesn't do a great job of letting us comment directly so we've opened up our own forums for you guys to check out. We've populated it with a couple of topics but feel free to let us know if we should add more forum topics in addition to the ones we have up there right now.

In addition, last night we updated the pricing on the reward tiers but I honestly don't see how we can go any lower on getting people in the game. I think at this price it's seriously a steal. I mean, Leisure Suit Larry is FAMOUS and this is your chance to be IN the actual game itself....FOREVER!! So, we hope some of you will take us up on those offers so we can hit the goal that much faster!!

A lot of you guys have been screaming out for T-Shirts for one of the reward tiers as well as a "Special Thanks" credit in the game. Well, we've listened and Josh & Al are hard at work creating a "Backer" T-shirt with Larry on it. See? We DO listen!!

Well, until the next update....

-Paul T.

p.s. did i say how awesome you guys are for backing us and believing in this project? No? Well....you guys are AWESOME for backing us and believing in this project. We all worked very hard to get the right to re-make Larry and you guys are making our dreams come true. Thank you VERY, VERY much!!!

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What color is the t-shirt? I hate black tshirts and white tshirts. If it is any other color (light blue or green) I will upgrade my pledge. Maybe post a picture? Also I tend to think tshirts with logos, and any type of text/sayings are bad. But some cool looking artwork with one of larry's hot chicks would work!

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Ahhh, so YOU'RE the reason why I was finally able to play 16-color SCI games on my PCjr. Awesome. ;) Your video has brought back SO many memories for me. I wanted desperately to write for Sierra when I was a kid. I even sent them a packet of short stories once (not that they were any good - I was probably 11 or 12 at the time). I think it's REALLY cool that you got to work with them the way you did and even cooler that you're facilitating a possible comeback. Kudos, sir!

I'll just echo the other Linux-users above, and say that as soon as a definite milestone goal is announced (rather than just "after we pass our initial goal", which is uninspiringly vague), I'll be upping my pledge to help us reach it. :) The Unity3D guys are hopefully hearing more and more requests from developers for them to finally release full Linux support...

Mark, at this point Unity already can do export to swf, that may be used with standalone Flash player (many HIB developers ship Flash games to Linux users this way). As I understand limitation of Flash export in Unity is not related to 2D functional so this doesn't hurt customers of this game. Even if I not aware of some issues, Unity team probably have enough time to fix it before LSL release, or provide dev. preview version of export to Linux native binary feature to LSL team. Such options should be discussed with Unity developers.

So I still doesn't understand why Linux support require game re-writing (since Flash export available in Unity) and I still hope to get detailed answer with more details from LSL team.

I think one of the big problems has been the reward tiers. Yes this may be crowd sourced funding, but it's give and take...Double Fine were so generous with their rewards it was hard not to pledge. Face it, we're fans but we're selfish too...want stuff! Must - consume.

Of course, that doesn't mean they can't create a linux version outside of Unity, and that's why they've listed that as an extra funding goal, so they can use the extra money to pay a linux programmer to translate the program to linux once it's done for other platforms. This and the post above is all my guesswork and supposition, of course.

RussianNeuroMancer - the LSL team are using the Unity engine (according to some interviews), which supports all those other platforms but not linux. The reason linux isn't supported is up to the Unity people, not the LSL team, but is apparently a case of the Unity people saying 'we didn't see enough interest to justify supporting it'. There are rumours they'll be adding it soon, though. All those other operating systems besides Linux, the Unity engine can make an executable for without extra cost so long as you've got the right Unity licenses.

Paul, thanks you for answer!
Now I see first version of answer in FAQ was not complete and doesn't include information about platforms that your engine is already support, so such changes confusing.

Anyway, it's still very hard for me to imagine why you need to "re-write the entire game" (probably you mean "game engine") since you have game engine that already support TWO desktop OS and TWO mobile OS. Maybe you had in mind "add support of one more desktop OS to engine", but not "re-write the entire game"?

If you are sure in your words about "re-write the entire game for Linux", maybe it's possible to shed the light to some technical details? You know, Linux users will understand technical details :)

Hey Rani and Naikel - take a look at Allowe.com - he's had it up since Friday. He didn't get it up sooner because his web guy was sick last week.

@Larry - awesome, thank you!!

@Sean - point well noted...we're working on it!!

@RussianNeuroMancer - we don't need additional funding to do OS X, iOS, Android. We do need additional funding for Linux. Sorry, but it's not supported by our engine and we need to re-write the entire game for Linux. Once we're funded, our next milestone is Linux, like we've said before.

Guys, why you change answer about supported platforms?
That was before "Once we are 100% funded then we can add platforms, starting with Linux (our biggest demand besides PC / Steam) and branch out from there."

Here is a quick one though ... Al, how come your website www.allowe.com has nothing in reference to the kickstarter campaign! Your site is regularly visited by your fans, and I'm sure many them still don't know of this kickstarter project. Please post an update on the main page of your website.

Also, think of a way to engage and inform all subscribers and users of the Cyber Joke to spread the word about this kickstarter project.

Keep up the marketing and appearances guys! This high-profile kickstarter project has been a bit slower than some of the others, and a lot of that seems to be due to apprehensions people have about the issues Al addressed in the video. It'd be awesome if you could keep getting the word out to the hardcore gamers who are on the fence.
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Now, if you'd just get around to making those reward tiers a little more attractive, I think you'd get a bunch of us backers to up the ante as well. Consider this: if you could convert just 25% of the $15 backers to $50 backers, you'd raise $32,000 from people who are already supporting the project. As I've said elsewhere, the $50 tier really isn't so attractive to those who have backed similar projects (we get no boxed copy, no documentary, no special items, and no extra experience - just a digital game, a digital soundtrack and a digital book.) You guys can do better, either by including late beta access, a "deluxe edition" of the game with some extra content, or some other goodies you're sure to come up with. Take the time to improve this tier and it will benefit everyone. For the price of a retail game, backers should really be getting something super special!